Indhold: Approaches to the costume drama (Pageantry and populism, democratization and dissent : the forgotten 1970s / Claire Monk. History's drama : narrative space in "golden age" British television drama / Tom Bragg. "It's not clever, it's not funny, and it's not period!" : costume comedy and British television / James Leggott. "It is but a glimpse of the world of fashion" : British costume drama, Dickens, and serialization / Marc Napolitano. Never-ending stories? : The Paradise and the period drama series / Benjamin Poore. Epistolarity and masculinity in Andrew Davies's Trollope adaptations / Ellen Moody. "What are we going to do with Uncle Arthur?" : music in the British serialized period drama / Karen Beth Strovas and Scott M. Strovas). The costume drama, history, and heritage (British historical drama and the Middle Ages / Andrew B.R. Elliott. Desacralizing the icon : Elizabeth I on television / Sabrina Alcorn Baron. "It's not the navy-we don't stand back to stand upwards" : The Onedin Line and the changing waters of British maritime identity / Mark Fryers. Good-bye to all that : Piece of Cake, Danger UXB, and the Second World War / A. Bowdoin Van Riper. Upstairs, downstairs (2010-2012) and narratives of domestic and foreign appeasement / Giselle Bastin. New developments in heritage : the recent dark side of Downton "downer" Abbey / Katherine Byrne. Experimentation and postheritage in contemporary tv drama : Parade's End / Stella Hockenhull). The costume drama, sexual politics, and fandom ("Why don't you take her?" : rape in the Poldark Narrative / Julie Anne Taddeo. The imaginative power of Downton Abbey fan fiction / Andrea Schmidt. This wonderful commercial machine : gender, class, and the pleasures and spectacle of shopping in The Paradise and Mr. Selfridge / Andrea Wright. Taking a pregnant pause : interrogating the feminist potential of Call the Midwife / Louise FitzGerald. Homosexual lives: representation and reinterpretation in Upstairs, downstairs and Downton Abbey / Lucy Brown. Troubled by violence : transnational complexity and the critique of masculinity in Ripper Street / Elke Weissmann)